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In a land of giants, a 6’3, 221lb heavyweight is the KING.
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“Let’s not forget; I have the one thing that he (Usyk) doesn’t have, and that’s a punch that can switch lights off within the blink of an eye.”. 🗣 Tony Bellew. [September 24, 2018]
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🎥 Eddie Hearn, explaining the complexities of arranging a fight with the Eubank family. 🤔 Edward @EddieHearn Will Barry McGuigan be commentating for #EubankJrBenn ?. [ Video: @IFLTV ]
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Callum Smith, James DeGale and George Groves have all been rated at #1 at 168lbs. This century, however, only 1 Briton has gained recognition as a true, Lineal World Champion at Super Middleweight:. @RealJoeCalzaghe 🇬🇧
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A young @Tyson_Fury training at the Kronk Gym, with Emanuel "Manny" Steward. [Video Credit: CreativeWorldFilms]
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📸 Usyk, asking P4P legend, Manny Pacquiao, for a photo in 2023 🤝 .
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Andre Ward retired in 2017 (age 33), as a light heavyweight, having never fought for the LINEAL 175lb crown. Artur Beterbiev, now almost 40, won the LINEAL 175lb crown in 2019 (age 34), and has reigned for five years.
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#P4P. Only one active fighter in boxing has gone to a P4P top 5 fighter’s backyard, and won. 👑 @Tyson_Fury
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🇵🇦 Lightweight King, Roberto Duran. [Panama City, 1979]
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MMA: “Ngannou is the hardest puncher ever!”. George Foreman:
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Perhaps the elite big men of the 20th century would have been just fine against today’s heavyweight giants.
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39 years ago today, in Moscow, Russia, Rocky Balboa defeated Ivan Drago via 15th round knockout in one of the greatest battles in boxing history. Rocky had been forced to relinquish his world title belt to fight the Russian, but he was still seen as the LINEAL champion!
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According to @CompuBox, former Lineal 160lb Champion, Canelo, outlanded Gennady Golovkin in just 4/24 rounds during their two middleweight fights.
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🇬🇧 Tyson Fury. - Tallest and heaviest lineal champion in boxing history. - Ended Klitschko’s reign, dethroning him in Germany. - Wilder III & Usyk I: two of the greatest heavyweight fights of the 21st century. - Second longest lineal heavyweight .championship reign ever.
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📸 The Baddest Man on the Planet, with the Baddest Woman on the Planet.
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A teenage Joe Frazier losing in the final of the Olympic trials to 295lb, Buster Mathis. Mathis went on to get injured in training, resulting in Frazier taking his place on the USA’s Olympic team. Frazier won the gold medal and four years later KO’d Mathis as a pro.
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🎞 Ten months after Floyd Mayweather had beaten Canelo, Erislandy Lara outlanded the Mexican 107/97. Lara outlanded him in seven of the 12 rounds, with two rounds even. 🎥 @ShowtimeBoxing . #CaneloRyder
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Canelo pushed. Plant slapped. 🚘 Heavyweight, Larry Holmes (236lbs), jumped off a car and crushed Trevor Berbick. #CaneloPlant
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Usyk’s size (6’3, 198 - 226lb) is a throwback to the golden age of heavyweight boxing in the 1970s:. Ali: 6’3, (212 - 230lb). Frazier: 5’11.5 (205 - 229lb). Foreman: 6’3 (212 - 231lb). Norton: 6’3 (205 - 225lb). Holmes: 6’3 (202 - 215lb).
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Lineal Championships . Crawford: 3.Usyk: 2.Canelo: 2.Inoue: 2.Lopez: 2 .Bam: 1.Beterbiev: 1.Haney: 1.Tank Davis: 0.
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“He’s (@Tyson_Fury ) the man who beat the man. He is heavyweight boxing, period. He is, nobody else.”. - Mike Tyson
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🇺🇸 Tank Davis. Years as a professional: 11.Lineal Championship fights: 0.Unification fights: 0
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Terence Crawford is the first fighter to win Lineal World Championships at 135lb, 140lb and 147lb, since Hall of Famer, Barney Ross, achieved the feat 89 years ago!
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In a press-row poll of 58 reporters taken after the rematch between 36-year-old GGG and 28-year-old Canelo, just two had the Mexican winning.
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🏴 The first man to win all the major titles in the 4-belt era, at 168lbs: Joe Calzaghe. #caneloVsPlant #Lineal
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Taylor/Serrano II 🔥 . November 15. No hype or trash talk needed.
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If @terencecrawford was to beat lineal king Jermell Charlo at 154lb, it would make him a FOUR-WEIGHT LINEAL CHAMPION, matching Floyd Mayweather.
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50 years ago today:. “Everybody stop talking now! Attention!”.
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🏴 “Surprise!”. 🇩🇰 “Focking ‘ell!”. Joe Calzaghe, sneaking up behind Mikkel Kessler to surprise him on a Danish TV show, back in 2016. ⚔️ Calzaghe/Kessler - 15 years ago.
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🎞 Oleksandr Usyk, wobbling Anthony Joshua, in round 3 of their 2021 fight. 🎥 @SkySportsBoxing
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💥Number of KO victories against top 10 rated contenders💥. Deontay Wilder: 2. Joe Louis: 27
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🇲🇽 A young Julio Cesar Chavez, with Muhammad Ali 🇺🇸
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“6’3 Muhammad Ali would have been too small to beat this era’s super heavyweights.”. #FuryUsyk .
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Tyson Fury Vs Oleksandr Usyk: . The greatest heavyweight fight of the 21st century?.
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🎞 Amir Khan, flooring heavy handed Argentinian, Marcos Maidana, with a thudding liver shot in round one of their 2010 fight. Remarkably, Maidana got back up and went on to have a back and forth 12-round war with the Englishman.
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🏴 Joe Calzaghe. 👑 Lineal Super Middleweight Champ.🏆 Ring Light Heavyweight Champ.🌏 46-0. Undefeated.⭐️ Hall of Fame. 🏅 British ABA Welterweight Champ.🏅 British ABA Jr Middleweight Champ.🏅 British ABA Middleweight Champ. #StDavidsDay
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In 21 months between 1979-1981, Leonard stopped:. 38-0-1, Benitez .72-1, Duran .36-0, Kalule .32-0, Hearns. All were in their 20s. Benitez and Duran were two-weight lineal champs. Kalule and Hearns were reigning & future lineal champs, respectively, at 154lb.
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💥Number of KO victories against top 10 rated contenders💥. Deontay Wilder: 2. Lennox Lewis: 12
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Congratulations to Oleksandr Usyk on beating Tyson Fury by split decision to become THE heavyweight KING! 👏 . What a fight!. The Man that beat The Man. Usyk has joined boxing’s LEGENDARY list of LINEAL heavyweight champions!
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📸 Reigning women’s Lineal Middleweight Champion, Claressa Shields, pictured with former men’s Lineal Middleweight Champion, Miguel Cotto 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
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♠️P4P Aces: Canelo, Serrano and Crawford, pictured together in 2016. 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
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🇰🇿 Golovkin landed 44% more punches on Canelo in 2017, than Bivol landed on Canelo last night. #CaneloBivol
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📸 The current women’s P4P #1 @Claressashields with the former men’s P4P #1 @FloydMayweather. #GWOAT #TBE
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🎞 After having one of the worst rounds of his pro. career, Oleksandr Usyk comes out for round 10 like a man possessed, boxes beautifully and dominates Anthony Joshua. ⚔️ #Usyk 🇺🇦 . [@SkySportsBoxing]
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“Can I tell you something? In this situation, every head must bow, every tongue must confess - this is the greatest of all-time.”. - @MikeTyson
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If it hadn’t been for the existence of the cruiserweight division, Usyk may have taken the heavyweight crown years ago. 🎞️Outclassing 6’4” Gassiev to become king of the cruiserweights, in 2018.
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Roy Jones Junior, age 25, beating the world’s No.1-ranked super middleweight (and former lineal middleweight champion), James Toney. [November 18, 1994].
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CompuBox does not count a jab as a power punch. Golovkin’s jab:.
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🤔 A former cruiserweight king winning the lineal and undisputed heavyweight crown when outweighed by 38lb.
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“Let’s not forget; I have the one thing that he (Usyk) doesn’t have, and that’s a punch that can switch lights off within the blink of an eye.”. 🇬🇧 Tony Bellew. [September 24, 2018]
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🌍 At the end of 2019, Deontay Wilder was at the peak of his powers, undefeated in 43 fights and ranked as the No.1 heavyweight in the world. [Ratings: TBRB].
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🇩🇪He'll never beat Klitschko in Germany. He'll never fight again. He'll never lose the weight. 🇺🇸He'll never fight Wilder in America. One world. One Heavyweight World Champion. 👑Tyson Fury's reign continues 🌎. @BenDavison_ . [Video Credit: @BTSportBoxing]
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39lb is the biggest weight disadvantage a boxer has overcome to beat a reigning lineal champion since Baer/Carnera almost 90 years ago!
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🔥 In the last three years @alyciambaum has:. 🇧🇪 Knocked down Persoon.🇫🇷 Beaten Mekhaled.🇺🇸 Taken Mayer’s “0”.🇬🇧 KO’d Harper. Jr. Lightweight QUEEN: 2022 - Present
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🇬🇧 Joe Calzaghe 🇬🇧 . 👑 Lineal Super Middleweight Champ.🏆 Ring Light Heavyweight Champ.🌏 46-0. Undefeated.⭐️ Hall of Fame. 🏅 British ABA Welterweight Champ.🏅 British ABA Jr Middleweight Champ.🏅 British ABA Middleweight Champ
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👽 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins doing push-ups while he waits for champion, Jean Pascal, to come out for round 7. 🤯 Hopkins didn’t just win a belt, he won the Lineal Light Heavyweight Championship, and he did it on Pascal’s home turf. [May 21, 2011. Montreal, Canada]
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🩸 Flashback to when Canelo Alvarez went in for the kill, to finish off Caleb Plant and become KING at 168lb.
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👑 Two Kings of the Ring. 🇬🇧 80 fights. No losses.
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The sanctioning bodies will tell you otherwise, but the fans don't forget. 👑The Man that beat The Man👑. #Undefeated. #Lineal. @Tyson_Fury 🇬🇧
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@chieflamper @MichellePhelps @Tyson_Fury @BehindTheGloves Just over 110 years ago Hall of Famer Jack Johnson made his 4th defence of The Heavyweight World Championship. He didn't have or need a belt. He was The Man that beat The Man. On June 15th Fury makes his 4th defence of The Heavyweight World Championship. No belt required.
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Since 2016, there have been seven LINEAL Champions between 130 - 140lb:. Skakur Stevenson (130).Teofimo Lopez x2 (135 & 140).George Kambosos (135).Devin Haney (135).Terence Crawford (140).Josh Taylor (140). ❗️Tank Davis hasn’t fought any of them.
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“I don’t want to lose to a white boy either…. “…or a green boy, or a brown boy, or a red boy, or whatever other colour they want to bring to me.”. @RealJoeCalzaghe [2008] 🏴
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When Canelo moved up to 175, he challenged Kovalev and Bivol. After Benavidez moved up to 175, he called out Canelo. Who is the REAL MONSTER?
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De La Hoya was the REAL DEAL. 🥇 Olympic Lightweight Gold. 👑 Lineal Jr. Welterweight Champ. 👑 Lineal Welterweight Champ. 👑 Lineal Jr. Middleweight Champ. 🏆 Six-division titlist
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Happy birthday to @Tyson_Fury ! 🎂 . Fury now joins Larry Holmes as the only two boxers in history, to still be reigning as UNDEFEATED Lineal Heavyweight World Champion by the time of their 35th birthday!
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“He’s kidding.”. 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 Flashback to Usyk/Bellew
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⚔️ OTD in 2007 Calzaghe/Kessler clashed in Cardiff, Wales. ⏩ Nine years later, Calzaghe surprised his old foe!. ⚠️ “Focking ‘ell!”.
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🖼 How it started …. 📸 How it’s going. Happy birthday to P4P #1 & reigning two-weight Lineal Champ @Claressashields !!! 🎂
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🔥 As an amateur, Artur Beterbiev’s wins included:. 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Usyk. 🇷🇺 Sergey Kovalev. 🇺🇸 Michael Hunter. 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Gvozdyk. 🇨🇺 Yuniel Dorticos. #Beterbiev #BeterbievSmithJr
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After 24 rounds of boxing with GGG, according to @CompuBox Canelo only outlanded Gennady in 4 rounds. #CaneloGGG3
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The REAL 175lb KING: @ABeterbiev . 👑 4 years as Lineal Champion. ⏰ 10 years undefeated. 🧨 100% KO record.
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Joe Calzaghe 🇬🇧 46-0. Victories:.✅Eubank .✅Lacy.✅Kessler.✅Hopkins.✅RJJ
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🎥 Beterbiev, flooring Usyk with a body shot in the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships. #BeterbievYarde
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🎉 👏 A huge congratulations to @Tyson_Fury whose Lineal Heavyweight Championship reign has now surpassed Jack Dempsey’s, to become the second longest in the history of the heavyweight division!. Only Joe Louis ever had a longer Lineal Heavyweight reign than the Gypsy King.
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🌍 Artur Beterbiev has successfully defended the LINEAL light heavyweight crown in Russia, Canada, USA, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. 🇷🇺 Deines - TKO-10.🇨🇦 Browne - KO-9.🇺🇸 Smith Jr. - TKO-2.🇬🇧 Yarde - TKO-8.🇨🇦 Smith - TKO-7.🇸🇦 Bivol - MD-12.
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🎞 22-year-old Marco Antonio Barrera improving his record to 41-0, in devastating fashion. May 4th, 1996.
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Katie Taylor has faced the best fighters in the world at lightweight and junior welterweight during her 6-year pro. career…yet the person who came closest to stopping her, was a former 118lb titlist. #Serrano 🇵🇷 🧨 .
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📸 The reigning Heavyweight World Champion @Tyson_Fury and reigning Middleweight World Champion @Claressashields pictured together at UFC245, back in January 2020. #LinealChampions
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👊🏾@shaygreen35 may have the hardest right hand in women’s boxing. 🧨 Who wants #DezurnGreen ?!. [ 🎥 @MatchroomBoxing ]
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“And Calzaghe dodges all three punches and struts to his corner.”. Super middleweight KING, Joe Calzaghe Vs future WBC titlist, Sakio Bika. [October 14, 2006]
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🇬🇧 The most famous punch of Daniel Dubois’ career so far:.
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Congratulations to @Tyson_Fury who has now surpassed Klitschko to have the 4th longest Lineal Championship reign in heavyweight history 👏 . 1️⃣ Louis: 11 years 8 months. 2️⃣ Dempsey: 7 years 2 months. 3️⃣ Ali: 7 years. 4️⃣ Fury 6 years 5 months 9 days. 5️⃣ WK: 6 years 5 months 8 days
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When was the last time there was a #1 Vs #2 match-up between 2 unbeaten Heavyweights❓. make the most of #furywilder2 . @Tyson_Fury @BronzeBomber .🇬🇧🇺🇸🌎👑. #Lineal.
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The Man that beat The Man. Pascal - Hopkins - Dawson - Stevenson - Gvozdyk - BETERBIEV . LINEAL 175lb King @ABeterbiev . #BeterbievBivol .
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Before The Monster…the 122lb weight class had El Chacal. 🇨🇺 Guillermo Rigondeaux . 🥇x2 Olympic gold medals.🥇x2 World gold medals.🥇x7 Cuban national champion. 👑 Lineal Junior Featherweight World Champion: 2013 - 2022.
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